I’ve been dealing with same issue. I give it a few tries restarting and when it works I refresh everything. To get the enjoyments out of this trainwreck I started up an old character on PVE and it’s been very refreshing loading right in and not worrying about game freezing and having your character out in the wild waiting to be pillaged. I know it sucks trying to play the game outside the game in order to get into the game, I wish you luck